Finder command - set tag using home-brew tag utility

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#1

I’ve installed this GitHub - jdberry/tag: A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags. through home brew which works by in the terminal

command line : WORKS
tag --add done /Users//Desktop/test.txt

but when running the same command in AppleScript I get the ERROR:

sh: tag: command not found

on addTag(filePath as POSIX file, tag)
	do shell script "tag --add " & quoted form of tag & " " & quoted form of POSIX path of filePath
end addTag

add

addTag("/Users/<user>/Desktop/test.txt", "done")

It seems like it’s not using the same terminal environment.

How do I get it to use the terminal environment?

#2

The shell used in Do Shell Script has no idea where in the filesystem the tag command is located, so you need to be explicit about that location. Also, I would not use the name tag for the passed tag string.

I have written this example to find the tag command and accept either a POSIX file or POSIX path from the handler file argument. If you are on an Apple Silicon Mac, and you installed tag from homebrew, then its path will be /opt/homebrew/bin/tag.

use scripting additions

set f to ((path to desktop as text) & "docx-2.txt") as alias
addTag(f, "done")
return

on addTag(afile, tagname)
	do shell script "/usr/local/bin/tag --add " & quoted form of tagname & space & (afile's POSIX path)'s quoted form
end addTag
#3

thanks that makes sense. thanks for the update.